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A tour of Granada offers glimpses into the daily life of the 70,000 Granadans who once inhabited the city. Crossing the city from the Alhambra hill, you'll encounter churches, fountains, the Darro River, donkeys wandering the streets, gypsy women, courtyards, archways, and women in their traditional mantillas. The city center, with areas like Reyes Católicos, Plaza Nueva, and Cuesta de Gomérez, is easily recognizable, as are the Sacromonte caves, where Holmes found gypsy women who were "less picturesque" than he had expected.
Visits to three animal parks in Miami, Florida: the Rare Bird Farm, with it's many chickens, cranes, and other birds; the Monkey Jungle, where the visitors are caged and the simian inhabitants roam freely; and finally the Parrot Jungle.
Time Stood Still is a 1956 Warner Brothers Scope Gem travelogue, filmed the previous year in Dinkelsbühl, and presented in the wide-screen format of CinemaScope, directed by André de la Varre. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film at the 29th Academy Awards.
A Sports Parade (though not officially titled as such) visit to Switzerland. Covered are a rowing competition in Lucerne, tennis matches and horse jumping set against the mighty Alpine scenery, Zug costumes, gymnastics "poetry in motion" and a flag parade.
A scenic panorama of the Tyrolian wonderland that strikes many thousands of visitors each year with the immensity of its grandeur.
The Danube, not always blue but always beautiful, a river that like no other has inspired human imagining to expressions of lyrical beauty and dramatic wonderment.
Snow Carnival is a 1949 short documentary film narrated by Gary Cooper, and supervised by Gordon Hollingshead. It is about the snowy attractions of mid-twentieth century Aspen, Colorado. The film was nominated for an Oscar nominated for Best Short Subject, Two-Reel.
This short film focuses on Ontario's fire rangers, who keep watch over Canada's forests.
A three-day carnival featuring Momo the God of Pleasure and some floats designed by celebrated artists and sculptors.
Documentary short about an anual football game being helf in Florence, Tuscany in Italy dating back to medieval times.
Irish horse racing is the subject of this Sports Parade.
André de la Varre presents Nias and Sumatra, Islands of Netherlands India.
Grandad of Races is a 1950 American short documentary film about the Palio di Siena held in the Piazza del Campo in Siena, directed by André de la Varre. It won an Oscar at the 23rd Academy Awards in 1951 for Best Short Subject.
A tour of sports played in the Caribbean in Puerto Rico and Jamaica. An airplane fly's over Puerto Rico. HA El Moro on San Juan Bay. Watch men playing golf on course in El Moro fort. Shots of water ski-ing and a baseball game in large stadium. Girls play softball, basketball team of University of Puerto Rico practice, men playing tennis. Horsemanship people riding Paco Fino horses. Street scenes of British Jamaica, policemen directing traffic. At racetrack, horses racing, polo and soccer games, shots of paople rafting down a river. Various shots in Montego Bay, beach, a rowboat with glass window in bottom, shots thru window, sailboat racing, fishing. Various, young boy catching a fish, man fighting marlin on line and marlin brought on board, shark gets away, flags run up to signal two catches, two marlin hung out displayed.
Travelogue by Andre de la Varre from 1952 that highlights key travel destinations throughout France, Italy, Spain, Austria and France.
Travelogue from 1938 of towns and historic sites along the French Normandy coast. Extensive footage of the port town of Le Havre (which would be heavily bombed during WWII) with ocean liners arriving to the port, vistas of the city, and 1930s old European street scenes. Resort towns such as Etretat, with village street scenes, people relaxing on the beach, and vistas of naturally carved cliffs.
A tour in the spring of 1933 aboard the S.S. Columbus.
About Vienna just before the Anschluss with Germany, is a black and white travelogue from André de la Varre.
Tour of the French Riviera.
A Tour of Manila, Philippines in the 1930s
